Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.5 in Amazon Bedrock: Anthropic’s most intelligent model, best for coding and complex agents

By Dustin Ward

Today, we’re excited to announce that Claude Sonnet 4.5, powered by Anthropic, is now available in Amazon Bedrock, a fully managed service that offers a choice of high- performing foundation models from leading AI companies. This new model builds upon Claude 4’s foundation to achieve state-of-the-art performance in coding and complex agentic applications. Claude Sonnet…

Introducing Microsoft Marketplace — Thousands of solutions. Millions of customers. One Marketplace.

By Dustin Ward

An image of part of the Microsoft Marketplace digital dashboard.A new breed of industry-leading company is taking shape — Frontier Firms. These organizations blend human ambition with AI-powered technology to reshape how innovation is scaled, work is orchestrated and value is created. They’re accelerating AI transformation to enrich employee experiences, reinvent customer engagement, reshape business…

Agent Factory: Designing the open agentic web stack

By Dustin Ward

This blog is a wrap-up post in a blog series called Agent Factory which shares best practices, design patterns, and tools to help guide you through adopting and building agentic AI. The rise of AI agents—autonomous software entities acting on behalf of users and organizations—marks a transformative moment for enterprise technology. But as we’ve explored throughout this…

Accelerate migration and modernization with agentic AI

By Dustin Ward

Every organization has an innovation agenda. Whether it’s building AI-native applications, creating more engaging customer experiences, or unlocking new efficiencies—ambition is never the problem. But for many teams, it’s their technical debt that stands in the way. Legacy systems, outdated codebases, and fragmented infrastructure slow progress and drain resources. In fact, over 37% of application portfolios require modernization today—and that number will remain high over the…